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… of development. In particular I entrust to the Lord the future of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea and Nigeria. May the Risen Lord sustain the Christians who suffer persecution and …

… … Actually, we have people who know about this kind of stuff from their experience in eastern Congo and other places. One thing you can do is to organize the women in the camp, so they know …

… Gerry O’Connell interviews Archbishop Lauren Monsengwo Pasinya of the Democratic Republic of Congo about the “silent genocide” being fueled in that nation by a global scramble to exploit …

… Kiêt, Ha Noi, Vietnam •tArchbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo •tArchbishop Kazimierz Nycz, Warsaw, Poland •tArchbishop Willem Jacobus Eijk, Utrecht, The …

… row, nuclear arsenals, corruption on Wall Street, the suffering of Haiti, Gaza, Darfur, Peru, Congo, Malawi, and Bangladesh -- these are all connected. We need to ask, why are the Haitians so …

… Information Service of Africa. The Catholic Diocese of Uvira in the Democratic Republic of Congo is building a new hospital in South Kivu, which is near the border with Rwanda and Burundi. … about the hospital. It is name after Fr. Giuseppe Crippa , an Italian Xaverian missionary to Congo from 1966 to his death in October 2009. …

… law by brutalizing their own people. When there is genocide in Darfur, systematic rape in Congo or repression in Burma — there must be consequences. And the closer we stand together, the …

… and to “Globalization.” By midcentury, Nigeria, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo will be among the 10 largest Catholic nations in the world, displacing from the list Poland …

… the U.N. reported 27,000 reported rapes in just one region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Multiply that by the rest of the country and the number of years the fighting has endured …

… malaria and even dying of malaria every day is very high in Nigeria. We are told that after Congo, we are perhaps the next highest number. The United Nations have decided to zero in on …

… Sisters in Action Around the World … African Photovoltaic Project … The Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur have ministered in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1894 and in Nigeria since 1963. Aware that the lack of clean water and electricity were major problems for both Nigeria and the Congo, they reviewed energy needs and researched energy alternatives. It soon became evident that …

… between the Muslim-dominated north and sub-Saharan Africa, for example, or between war-torn Congo and Sudan and zones of relative calm such as Gambia. Nowhere do generalizations about …

… a loss of development aid. Gaston Asitaki, for example, who heads a pro-family association in Congo, recently complained of “nasty pressure on our parliament to ratify the Maputo Protocol” …

… a role in attempting to resolve conflicts in Darfur, Comoros, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, the Ivory Coast and other countries. The AU headquarters are located in Addis …

… of martyrdom. (Archbishop François Maroy Rusengo from Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reported that a parish in his archdiocese was burned down just two days before the synod …

… morning, Sr. Pauline Odia Bukasa of the “Ba-Maria” Sisters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to participants in the synod, Bukasa told synod members that women … brunt of the various crises that sometimes plague Africa, particularly violence and poverty. Congo in particular has been wracked by several cycles of violence in the last two decades. The center of a regional war centered on the Great Lakes, Congo has seen an estimated one and a half to two million people killed over that span of time, …

… a black pope. Next up came Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who in a synod speech on Monday called Obama’s election a “divine sign” and a “sign from …

… yesterday afternoon from Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of the Democratic Republic of Congo, as part of the Synod of Bishops for Africa meeting in the Vatican Oct. 4-25. Monsengwo …

… only four are presently at war: Somalia, Sudan, Niger and parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. “Indeed, there are fewer wars in Africa than in Asia,” Turkson said. •tPublic officials …

… most heavily Christian nations in Africa are Burundi, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Congo-Brazaville. They also, of course, are the four nations which have seen the most appalling … a half, including the Rwandan genocide and the vast war in the Great Lakes region centered on Congo -- each of which have left millions dead and generated tens of millions of refugees. …